About PONTES
PONTES (lat. bridges) is a 
cross-border education network, covering various areas of education and it is supported by many organisations in the German-Polish-Czech 
Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa.
Our network involves many institutions and players from all education sectors, economy, politics, administration, culture, associations and organizations in all three neighbouring countries.
We would like to invite everyone who wants to get involved with development of the Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa to a state-of-the-art, cross-border educational facility in the context of the promotion of a successful regional development and therewith to open up new perspectives for the people living here to co-operate with us. |
Based on regional distinctions of our borderland we initiate and realize innovative projects and create various learning opportunities, products and services for the promotion of lifelong learning.
Our thematic priorites:
The PONTES-Agentur (Agency) located by the Internationales Begegnungszentrum St. Marienthal (International Meeting Centre in St. Marienthal) forms the competence and service centre of the network. It coordinates the work of the network, develops the range of services for the euroregional area of education and supports the execution of concrete projects.
PONTES was build between April 2002 and April 2007 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as one of the 75 model projects Germany-wide within the programme “Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks”
In co-operation with the Löbau-Zittau district, the district of Lower Silesia and Upper Lusatia as well as the City of Görlitz and supported by many regional players and sponsors we managed to establish the Learning Region PONTES to a regional, Saxony and German-wide accepted and Europe-wide registered trademark, assuring the sustainable continuation of the successful networking also beyond the period of sponsorship.
„5 years of PONTES – interim result and prospects”
The interlocal co-operation "PONTES - Learning in and for Europe” was awarded a prize at the national competition "kommKOOP - Erfolgreiche Beispiele interkommunaler Kooperation" (successful examples of interlocal co-operation) in 2006.
